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I made a couple of changes to the function to support recursively stepping into directories. I started messing around with this snippet in order to reproduce the functionality of using the Windows OpenFile dialog with a one-liner. Now it’s a bit more than a one-liner, but the GridView UI is actually pretty useful if you don’t know exactly what file you’re looking for.

I found two great tools yesterday. Actually, that’s an grossly inaccurate statement. One of the tools I learned about at the PowerShell Summit earlier this year, but was just finally published to GitHub. The second tool isn’t really a tool, but a site indexing a bunch of tools, or frameworks, for generating static websites.

I have been sitting here staring at my computer for over two hours now. Essentially locked out of my system for a full disk virus scanned enforced by The Man (aka Corporate IT). The scan thrashes my slow laptop harddrive so much that opening even a simple web page requires a buddhist monk’s level of patience. The job has a runtime limit of two and a half hours.

I’ve been working with New Relic a lot in recent weeks and have deployed their agent several times. Obviously, this required some automation and the best way to automate software installs on Windows is Chocolatey. Unfortunately, New Relic didn’t publish their agents to Chocolatey and the existing packages were out of date.

I brought up the request on the user forum and New Relic expressed interested, but also said, “feel free to give it a try yourself.” So, I did.

Humanizer helps you generate some nice output, but it’s kind of a pain to use in PowerShell. You can use Update-TypeData to make the syntax easier to work with. Then, your code starts to look more like the examples on the project’s site.

I finished this book a few weeks ago and have struggled with how to write a review. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman is the most epic self-help book I have ever read. It’s also different in the fact that there is no “do this or that to live a better life” type advise, but simply over 400 pages of examples of hour your brain can fail you in so many situations.